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NCLEX Nutrition

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1. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






2. Food freqency questionnaire is used over this time period to track nutrients not consumed daily






3. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






4. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






5. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






6. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






7. How much milk is to be consumed per day?






8. What function is vitamin D?






9. What type of people need extra protein?






10. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






11. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?






12. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?






13. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






14. What is normal BMI?






15. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






16. Where can you get more vitamin D?






17. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy






18. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






19. What is RDA of protein?






20. What is normal albumin levels?






21. What does DASH stand for?






22. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






23. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






24. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






25. What type of fat is to kept to an all time low for consumption?






26. What is the function of vitamin C?






27. Name six sources of grains






28. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






29. How many calories/gram is protein?






30. When does BMR decrease?






31. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






32. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






33. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






34. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






35. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






36. Sources of fats






37. Fats can lead to some medical problems






38. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






39. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






40. How much grains are to be eaten per day?






41. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






42. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet






43. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






44. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






45. What are healthy sources of fats?






46. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






47. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






48. What is the function of vitamin E?






49. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






50. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?